Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Sexual pessimism and hostility toward the pleasures of the flesh are a legacy from the ancient world which Christianity has preserved in… — Uta Ranke-Heinemann Copy Share Image
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“Pay to go inside Neruda's home A body lies there with no dome. But right there in the front hall Lean a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Now hear it, O inhabitants of the earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came into the garden… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews. We know very well-known fixed places like Auschwitz,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a… — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Finch picked up one of the ancient fax-mags and brought it over to me. "I don't need anything to read," I said.… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
Will not the Lord hear my prayers and listen to my cries as soon as he ever did to theirs [the ancient… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like… — Sherri Saum Copy Share Image
I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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